
Agent: Jessica Watterson, Sandra Dijkstra Literary. The Spanish setting and the zany antics of Lina’s family only add to the fun. A TikTok sensation, this rom-com about a young woman who agrees to fake date a colleague and bring him to her sisters wedding has everything you could.

The slow-burning romance heats up the pages as Armas’s witty, intelligent protagonists reveal their innermost secrets and overcome their past misunderstandings. The attraction between Lina and Aaron intensifies as they spend time together in New York and in Spain, and soon the affection they’ve been faking becomes all too real. Lina’s confused, given their contentious working relationship, but with no other options, she accepts his proposal and agrees to return the favor by posing as his girlfriend at an upcoming charity event. Jeune autrice espagnole et book addict invétérée, Elena Armas sest hissée en tête des meilleures ventes dès son premier roman. When Aaron Blackford, a coworker at her New York firm, overhears her talking about this dilemma, he offers to play the role.

Desperate to convince her family that she’s over their difficult breakup, Lina invents a fictitious boyfriend to be her plus-one. Engineer Catalina “Lina” Martín’s ex, Daniel, is set to be the best man at her sister Isabel’s wedding to his brother, Gonzalo, in their native Spain. The romance novel acquired 100 million views on BookTok, received the 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Debut Novel, and accepted a bid from BCDF Picture for motion picture rights. Armas’s debut sizzles with chemistry as two colleagues discover real attraction in their pretend romance. Elena Armas’s literary career took off when her debut novel, The Spanish Love Deception (2021), became a New York Times Bestseller.
